A 70-year-old woman is beginning to notice mild memory impairment.She fears she is developing Alzheimer's disease and asks her granddaughter,a nurse,if this is the case.What factors would the nurse and her grandmother use to distinguish normal age-related memory impairment from a developing dementia?

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The normal memory changes associated with aging are not severe enough to interfere with completion of activities of daily living.Normal aging changes can cause reduced problem solving and difficulty with word finding,although to a milder degree than dementia.Although both normal aging changes and dementia progress slowly,the changes develop somewhat more rapidly,but not much more rapidly,in dementia.

A 70-Year-Old Woman Is Beginning to Notice Mild Memory Impairment